FLEMINGTON — A dangerous intersection has apparently been tamed, according to an engineer’s report submitted recently to Councilman John Gorman, who is commissioner of public works.

In 2010, traffic turning from North Main Street into Park Avenue and hitting parked cars and endangering pedestrians nearly caused one block of Park Avenue to be made a one-way street at the request of residents. It would have flowed toward North Main Street.

But since then, two things have happened.

• Foran Boulevard has been extended across North Main Street to curve into Park Avenue, leaving a Park Avenue spur that connects with North Main. Now traffic taking a short cut from Route 31 to Route 12 doesn’t need the old intersection.

• The borough has forbidden all left turns at the intersection and has installed a small, slightly raised, triangular traffic island at the mouth of Park Avenue. To raise the island’s visibility, five orange plastic posts or bollards have been set up on it.

Judd Rocciola of Rocciola Engineering of Pompton Plains has evaluated the operation of that intersection and checked its performance for the past year. He also conferred with borough police, the borough engineer and the Department of Public Works.

Part of Rocciola’s letter was read at the May 29 Borough Council meeting: “I am pleased to report that there have been no traffic-related incidents or problems that would indicate that intersection is unsafe.”

Gorman said, “Only one thing remains out there that maybe we’ll take another look at… we have those little orange stanchions... We might consider removing them and see if people still do what they’re supposed to do. They are not the most pleasant things to look at; I agree with some of the residents commenting on that in the past.”

Tony Previte, who usually acts as an unofficial representative of that neighborhood at council meetings, was absent. So Robert Shore, another regular, stepped up and told council “people have come here time and time again wanting that to be a one-way street” and their wishes should be given more weight.

Gorman said, “Go over there during the day when it’s busy. You have 200 cars go through there, and only two go in front of their houses” (on the Park Avenue spur). He said it should not be made “a one-way street for a couple of cars.”

Later on, Previte, a retired police officer who lives across North Main Street from that intersection, said he still believes that section known as Old Park Avenue should be one-way. He and “Citizen Jack” Koontz led the 2010 campaign to make it one-way.

It found favor with then-mayor Bob Hauck, but at a meeting that May a few people opposed making it a one-way street. One was then-assistant fire chief Debbie Gilmartin. She said that a barrier blocking incoming traffic there would prevent fire trucks from turning left onto North Main Street, thereby adding a minute to response time to the garden apartments.

Another was Attorney Steve Gruenberg representing the owners of Steve’s Food Store. He said making that block one-way would be “an incredible hardship” for his clients.

Mention was also made of the extra traffic that would be shunted onto Allen Street.

So council decided to see about using plastic bollards to channel traffic there.